Google Cloud Vision

Overview

Google Cloud Vision offers a comprehensive set of machine vision tools which you may find useful for text extraction.

Bottle Rocket can integrate with Google Cloud Vision to extract text from images.

Prerequisites

• In order to create a Google Cloud connector, you will first need to have a Google account.
• With a Google account, you will then need to start a Google Cloud project in the console.
  • Follow this guide to set up a Google Cloud project.
• Google Cloud Vision pricing has a free tier for the first 1000 units / month, which should be sufficient for most use cases.

Create the project in Google Cloud

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If you have already created a GCP project as part of a Google Drive upload workflow, you can use this project instead of creating a new one.

• In the Google Cloud console, select Create or select a project.
• Enter a Project name, select a Location, and click Create.

• In the main project dashboard, open the sidebar menu and navigate to APIs & services > Library.
• Search for Vision and you should see the Cloud Vision API listed; select it.

• Click Enable to enable the API.
• In the API / Service details screen, click Create credentials.
• Ensure that Select an API contains Cloud Vision API.
• For the credentials type, select Application data.
• Select Next.
• Fill in the details under Create service account, then select Create and continue.

• Skip the Permissions (optional) section.

• Skip the Principals with access (optional) section.

• Click Done to continue.

• Now, under the APIs and services section, select Credentials from the sidebar menu.

• Select the newly-added service account.

• Navigate to the Keys tab, and click Add key, selecting Create new key.

• Select JSON as the key type.

• Click Create to download the private key.

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Treat this private key file like a password - keep it secure, private, and do not share it with anyone.

Upload the private key file to the GCP Bottle Rocket Connector

• Login to your Bottle Rocket server.
• On the left-hand sidebar, under My connectors, select Add connector.

• Select the Google Cloud Platform Connector from the list of connectors, and click the Add connector button.

• Click on the paperclip / attachment button, and upload the private key file you downloaded from Google Cloud.
• Click Submit to save the connector.